Monday, April 17, 2006
Orange all set for sewer flow
The Orange County sewage treatment plant on River Road used to be a facility in crisis, unfit to handle the rising tide of wastewater in the county's fast-growing southeastern corner.
But this month, after an 18-year saga of sewer-hookup bans, lawsuits by developers and environmentalists and a fine for excessive discharge into the Ramapo River, the crisis recedes with the completion of a $26 million plant expansion conceived a decade ago.
Suddenly, things are looking good.
Not only do they have a bigger Harriman plant, but county officials say they plan - at least in the short term - to keep using the Kiryas Joel sewage plant they borrowed as a stopgap measure, which adds another cushion of capacity.
What's more, there's a fallback option if things get tight again: new filter technology that would enable the Harriman plant to process another 3 million gallons a day, according to consultants who just tested it.
Add up all the factors, and a region habitually short of sewage plant space could ultimately find itself flush with it - the key, whether residents like it or not, to continued development in the region.
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/04/17/news-camsewer-04-17.html
The Orange County sewage treatment plant on River Road used to be a facility in crisis, unfit to handle the rising tide of wastewater in the county's fast-growing southeastern corner.
But this month, after an 18-year saga of sewer-hookup bans, lawsuits by developers and environmentalists and a fine for excessive discharge into the Ramapo River, the crisis recedes with the completion of a $26 million plant expansion conceived a decade ago.
Suddenly, things are looking good.
Not only do they have a bigger Harriman plant, but county officials say they plan - at least in the short term - to keep using the Kiryas Joel sewage plant they borrowed as a stopgap measure, which adds another cushion of capacity.
What's more, there's a fallback option if things get tight again: new filter technology that would enable the Harriman plant to process another 3 million gallons a day, according to consultants who just tested it.
Add up all the factors, and a region habitually short of sewage plant space could ultimately find itself flush with it - the key, whether residents like it or not, to continued development in the region.
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/04/17/news-camsewer-04-17.html
Comments:
Well, We finally have a use for KY and their infrastructure. A place to cleanup Goiysha excerment and send it on to the world. A fitting epithat for a community that comes from Satu Maria
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